Wichita eagle., 1887-03-26
HELEN COUGAR AND HER PLANT
WORSHIPERS.
From the Kansas Oh ef.

The most dlSgrunticO man IN ha0sds
appears to be Marsh Murdoch, of the
| Wichita EAGLE Even the boom has lost
| much of its pleasure TO him. He abuses
| the late legislature without stint, and can
see nothing commendable that it has done
all because it passed the bill granting
municipal suffrage to women. be insists
| that the women of Kansas don't want to
vote Then he goes for Mrs. Cougar. who
has the credit of managing the suffrage
question in Kansas, and he wants to know
while she was running that who was run
ming her family and her home. But Marsh
may as we'll console himself. Ii
the women of Kansas do not want TO vote,
there is no law compelling them, and they
can remain at home; SO there's no harm
done. And if Mr. Cougar is satisfied with
the way her house is run. Marsh ought TO
put up with it.
But we nave heard good deal about
women not wanting to vote. Senator Lowe,
OF Leavenworth, was one 1T the most per
! >i-tent opponents of the measure, AMI SAID
the u men did not want to vote. We see
il stated that his wife was among the first
women to register in Leavenworth. Gov.
Martin was very much opposed to the in
nova,ion. and signed the bill onln
to test doubtful experiment.
But it is said that his wife.
who had been very much opposed to
woman suffrage. has registered IN A1chi-
son. And We'll bet nickel that Mrs.
Marsh Murdoch votes. if she is able to get
to the polls. No, you don't want to set
your heart on the notion that the women
don't want to vote Wait until they have
had An opportunity.
We are and have been as calm as May
morning. probably exercised as little as the
average man over the questions mentioned.
But that is no reason why we should dodge
the disagreeable duty oftelling the people
that the greatest sin Of the last legislature
was not that of being run by an Indiana
woman who neglects home and everything
for the fun of running glib tongue at
the expense of other people.
As for women not being compelled by
law TO vote. we don't want Sol. Miller
after all these yeas 20 talk to US as he
might have talked thirty years ago. We
know more and SO does he. He knows
that seven out Of ten of the women Who
registered have been compelled to do so. as
was the lady whom he mentioned as having
d lie SO although livery much opposed 10
IN, innovation" If that is true, and We
b lieve it is. would she have registered ex'
cept through compulsicn2 Women are
controlled more certainly and surely by
other influences than by mems enactments
and Sol. Miller knows it. AS for the
lady whom he bets nickle will vote, she
will do rs she pleases; but from what we
have learned of her self -assertive character
and Independence OF convictions and
womanly bearing in twenty five years of
intimate rela,i @ nship, We venture the opin-
ion that reckless editor In the northeast
quarter Of the state will be short nickle
on election day. And further, had We
been governor of Kansas Mrs. Cougars
bill would not only have been promptly re-
turned to the feather headed body of mis-
representatives who passed it, but our &C
ton would have been most heartily en-
dorsed by the one who possesses head too
level to be turned by the craze of an hour.
and one who would not sacrifice her CON
victions of right to even make good the
guess of so old and admired a friend az Sol
Miller.
And. after ALL this is but an Illustration
of the thing of which We have complained,
the dragging of women into publicity their
names into the public prints.